I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The wrongful termination suit in which Ave Maria School of Law and its founder Tom Monaghan are claiming that the law school is really a religious organization and its professors are ministers has caught the attention of the National Law Journal. Author Tresa Baldes quotes the plaintiffs’ attorney on the claim:
“We got a curveball thrown into the case, and the law school is shooting itself in the foot,” said Deborah Gordon of the Law Offices of Deborah Gordon in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., who is representing the law professors.
Gordon is aghast at the theory that Catholic law school professors are ministers. “Are you people kidding or what,” Gordon said, baffled by Monoghan’s theory. Gordon thinks this argument could draw the ire of the American Bar Association. “The ABA approved them according to the ABA game plan,” she said.
According to Gordon, in Safranek v. Monaghan, three law professors allege that they were fired in retaliation for questioning how Ave Maria was being run. Ecclesiastic matters had nothing to do with their termination, she said.
The publication could not get comment out of Ave Maria or their attorneys.
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